| bigtakilla said: First off let me say I'm a MASSIVE slasher film fan, and have seen every single one from the unholy trinity (Friday, Nightmare, and Halloween) and countless others starting when I was around 5 years old. Chalk that up to bad parenting or whatever, point is I LOVE the genre. While we were talking Halloween, Nightmare, and Friday specifically a friend of mine and I were talking about who we associate with the villains of the films. A Nightmare On Elm Street was obvious, being Robert Englund has been the only person to portray Freddy Krueger (and no, I do not count Jackie Earle Haley, or that extremely crappy Nightmare remake). But the other two have been portrayed by numerous people. For Halloween it was quite obvious too, Nick Castle, who was in the original. I don't think anyone could name another actor of Michael Myers without looking it up, and his portayel of the character is perfect. But for Friday the 13th it gets pretty interesting. We both said Kane Hodder, but why?... He was only Jason Voorhees in 7,8,9, and 10. You know (or maybe not) the one that had a girl with telekinesis, the one where he went to New York (for like 10 minutes of which the rest was on a boat), the demon slug body snatcher one, and the one where he went in space. The absolute worst ones. It made no sense.... So here's my question. Why is Kane Hodder the first one thought of when someone asks who played Jason Voorhees? It's been on my mind all yesterday at work and I can't come up with an answer. |
The Short answer is that Jason isn't even in Part 1 and 4 of the original movies. Different actors potrayed him for Part 2 and another for Part 3. I would attribute most of it to the internet. There was no internet back when the first ones were made. If you look up the actors that potrayed Jason, Kane Hodder did it the most times and did so in the internet age. He is also easily the most "productive" as far as a career outside of Friday the 13th movies.
It is near the end of the end....
